crop
A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
Noun 4 meanings
A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
“The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?”
The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
“It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!”
A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
“The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.”
A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
“The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.”
Verb 4 meanings
To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
To mow, reap or gather.
To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
Etymology
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”).
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CROP at a glance
CROP has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (C 3 + R 1 + O 1 + P 3) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,495 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with crop
All rhymes- DROP7
- PROP8
- BACKDROP19
- OUTCROP11
- TEARDROP11
- AIRDROP10
- TROP6
- EAVESDROP15
- TURBOPROP15
- RAINDROP11
- SNOWDROP14
- STROP7
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